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Ride the NextWave

To Palo Alto Networks success

Why you should care

All NextWave partners need to meet a set of requirements by 31 July each year. With the opportunity to certify and specialise, meeting these requirements means you’ll differentiate your organisation by getting the knowledge, proficiencies and capabilities in place to build an unbreakable Palo Alto Networks pipeline.

Aiming for a higher partner level will earn you higher discounts, rebates and additional incentives to further break away from the competition.

Benefits

Free online sales and technical training

Specialisations

Programme discounts

Deal registration incentives

Partner value incentives*

Specialisation incentives and rebates

Additional rebate opportunities

Partner Locator Listing*

NFR discount*

*Excluding Registered Partners

The four partner paths

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Solution Provider

Resell and/or integrate Palo Alto Networks products and services, enabling differentiation, enhancing profitability, expanding opportunities and empowering success while delivering customers comprehensive cybersecurity.

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Managed Security Services Provider (MSSP)

Build, maintain and support differentiated, profitable, partner-led managed services to deliver customers their required cybersecurity outcomes.

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Services Partner

Provide expert consulting, professional, training and risk liability services to address customer demand for security by referring opportunities to Palo Alto Networks.

Overview
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Cloud Service Provider/Marketplace

Add new revenue streams with Marketplace sales and address customer demand to purchase Palo Alto Networks products and services via marketplace transactions.

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Want to resell Palo Alto Networks’ market-leading portfolio, without any requirements? With the Registered Partner Programme, you can still differentiate your organisation through product specialisations, without needing to meet specific requirements.

 

Certify and specialise

NextWave product specialisations bring a sea of benefits including priority on Palo Alto Networks-initiated opportunities, additional rebates and discounts, and early access to product and services training. Product specialisations require Sales and Pre-Sales certifications as well as engagement points. 
 


Services Partners and MSSPs should also focus on achieving service specialisations, MSSP proficiencies and industry proficiencies.
 

Build knowledge and skills with our curated events calendar

Our events help you differentiate your organisation by guiding you through trainings, certifications, ‘how-to’s’ and more – including those needed to earn product specialisations. We’ve got you covered, whatever you need to know - with plenty of rewards to support your journey.

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Earn engagement points

Engagement point activities are proven to convert customers and contribute towards product specialisations. Here’s how you earn the twenty points required for product specialisation:

Solution Providers

Westcon-Comstor Learning

Get on-demand, free access to a wave of enablement content including demos, recorded webinars and events, and Westcon 3D Labs.

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Grow your pipeline

As Palo Alto Networks’ EMEA Distributor of the Year 2019, 2020, 2022 and 2023, we bring a range of unique value-adds you can’t find elsewhere in distribution – including:

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Secure Palo Alto Networks NGFW business by delivering the hardware your customers need. We deliver NGFW hardware and accessories in a matter of days across EMEA.

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Westcon iD

Our one-of-a-kind data capabilities offer deep-dive prospect profiling so you can lead data-driven sales conversations and marketing activities.

3D Lab

Our free, comprehensive lab environments let your teams get hands-on experience with Palo Alto Networks’ products and demo the solutions to customers in real-life scenarios.

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Westcon Services

Our education, support, professional, financial and supply chain services help you adopt new technologies, build new revenue streams, facilitate adoption and enhance customer success.

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Discover more about what we can do for your organisation to ensure incremental, substantial business growth – helping you meet NextWave pipeline requirements along the way.
 

Are you compliant?


Check your compliance status at any time with the compliance tool to ensure you’re on track to achieve your desired status by 31 July. If you’ve got gaps you need to fill, work closely with your local Westcon team to ensure you’re on the NextWave to success.